Electric-ligkht cord and shade adjuster



C. H. OTIS.

ELECTRIC LIGHT CORD AND SHADE ADJUSTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAIL-,2]. l9l9.

Patented Nov. 18, 1919.

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CHARLES H. OTIS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE ORANGE NOVELTY 00., 0F ORANGE, CONNECTICUT.

ELECTRIC-LIGHT CORD AND SHADE ADJUSTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 18, 1919.

Application filed. March 21, 1919. Serial No. 283,982.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. OTIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Electric- Light Cord and Shade Adjuster, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to adjusters for use in connection with electric light cords and shades. In particular, the device disclosed herein relates to a means for adjusting electric light shades or fixtures at an angle in respect to the vertical for the purpose of refleeting the light diffusion from the shade or electric light fixture at any desired angle, and further, the adjuster embodies a certain take-up means for shortening or lengthening the electric light cord to which this device is applied.

An object of the invention is to provide an electric light cord and shade adjuster comprising fixtures attachable with the lamp cord and to the shade of an electric light fixture for adjusting the distance of the electric light and shade from the ceiling to which said light and shade is suspended. It has also a purpose to employ a certain form of clamp in connection with attachment hooks, which may be readily and conveniently applied to any form of lamp cord and shade or light fixture.

Finally, it is an object of this invention to provide such a fixture as will find a wide range of uses in the home and other laces where electric light suspension cor s are used, and which will be composed of few parts, comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, and simple in application and use.

l/Vith the above and other objects in view the invention has relation to a certain novel arrangement and combination of parts, a description of which is disclosed within this specification, illustrated within the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims. In the drawings comprising a part of the disclosure herein:

Figure 1 illustrates the application of the adjuster to an electric light cord and shade fixture.

Fig, 2 illustrates a perspective View of a certain form of clamp embodied in the invention; and

Figs. 3 and 4. show sectional views of this clamp, Fig. 3 being a sectional view taken upon the line 33 of Fig. 4.

Fig 5 is a view showing certain lining material used in the clamp, the inaterial being shown in outstretched form before it is inserted in the clamp.

Fig. 6 illustrates the sheet metal blank of the clamp in open form prior to bending in the completed shape.

Figs. 7 and 8 show a certain cord and shade hook used in connection with the aduster means.

Fig. 9 illustrates a modified use of the ad uster device in application to a lamp cord. Referring more particularly to the drawings, wherein the same parts throughout the several views are designated by numerals of the same denomination, the numeral 1 points out a clamp with substantially parallel ears 2 integrally formed with and projecting from the cylindrical body 1 of the clamp. This clamp is in the form of an open ring, and a hook 4 is provided in one of the ears by slotting the ears as pointed out at 5. A hook comprising an open ring 6 is integrally formed with the clamp. A liner 7 is inserted in the clamp and secured therein by punched-in portions 8 projecting into apertures 9 which register with the portions 8. A section 11 of the liner is forced into a slot 10 formed in the clamp which further secures the liner and clamp in substantial fixed relation one with the other. The liner will be made of rubber or other suitable material which will protect the electric light cord from chafing or damage when the clamp is adjusted upwardly and clownwardly on said lamp cord.

An adjusting cord 15 is anchored in one of the ears as designated at 16. The clamp will be placed about the electric light cord, impressed tightly thereon, and the adjusting cord 15 which is securely anchored at one of the ears will then be passed into the slot 5 and drawn tightly therein which will cause the clamp to tightly and frictionally engage the electric light cord, thus securely holding the clamp at any desired position upon the lamp cord. This adjusting cord 15 is provided with a shade hook 16 which removably engages the rim of the electric light shade fixture, the electric light fixture being designated by A. The angular position of and is adapted to securely engage shown in its application to the electric light shade as shown in the drawings is maintained in that position by the cord 15, which is securely anchored to the clamp and to the shade. If it is desired to change the angular adjustment of the shade fixture the clamp will be loosened by partially removing the adjusting cord 15 from the slot until the clamp will slightly expand from the cord. The clamp may be slipped upwardly or downwardly on the lamp cord for fixing the shade in any other angular position as required. 7

Another adjusting cord 17 is anchored into the clamp as pointed out by the numeral 18. A lamp cord hook 19 is fixed to the free extremity of the adjusting cord 17, the lamp cord in a position somewhat above the position of the clamp 1 upon said lamp cord. The lamp cord is pointed out in the drawings by the reference letter B. If it is desired to shorten or take up the lamp cord B thus raising the electric light fixture A nearer the ceiling from which it is suspended, the cord hook 19 will be attached to the lamp cord 13 somewhat above the clamp 3 such that avportion of the lamp cord, designated by C, will loosely drop in an unused fold as illustrated in Fig. 1. Thus the device comprising this invention can be used for the double purpose of shortening up the lamp cord and maintaining any desired angular position of the shad-e for directing the light in any direction from the shade.

Fig. 9 is a partial view of the adjuster the lamp cord, and illustrates the clamp secured to the lamp cord in the usual manner with its associate adjusting cord 15 extending toward the periphery of the shade, not shown, for connection thereto. The open ring hook 6 is attached to the lamp cord B with a portion C of said cord looped down, hanging freely, and unused to support the fixture A. This last described adjuster renders it unnecessary to use the upper cord section 17 which may be omitted.

For simplicity in description and inexpensiveness in manufacture I have shown in the drawings the'supporting means as cords 15 and 17, but I desire to particularly point out that any other appliance, such as small ball-chain which may be suitable for this device, can be employed in connection with my invention for carrying out the aforedescribed purpose.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: 7

1. An electric light cord and shade adjuster comprising: a clamp for attachment with an electric light cord, a hook formed on the clamp to engage the electric lamp cord to shorten said cord, a shade-adjusting cord attached to the clamp, and a hook fixed to the adjusting cord for attachment with a lamp shade to adjust the angle of said shade.

2. In a lamp cord and shade adjuster comprising; a clamp member consisting of an open ring with integral cars, a hook formed on the clamp, an adjusting cord anchored to one of the ears and adapted to be securely passed over and around the hook for securing the clamp in fixed relation with an electric light cord, and a cord attached to the clamp, and a means associated with the cord to connect said cord with a lamp shade for holding the shade in a preferred angular position.

3. An electric light cord and shade adjuster comprising; a clamp for attachment with an electric light cord, a hook formed on the clamp to engage a section of lamp cord for shortening the same, a liner inserted in the clamp to prevent chafing of the electric light cord, an adjusting cord anchored to the clamp, and a shade hoek fixed to the adjusting cord.

CHAS. H. orrs. 

